Industrial-grade Linux designs simplified with SAMA5D2 MPU-based SOM
The highly-integrated SOM is intended to eliminate EMI, ESD and signal integrity design challenges, allowing the product to get to market faster. The SOM can be soldered to a board for production, or used as a reference design by using the free schematics, design and Gerber files and complete BoM available online from Microchip. This approach gives developers the flexibility to move between designs using the SOM, the SiP or the MPU alone.
The SAMA5D2 SiP is built around an ARM Cortex-A5 and can be mounted on the SOM PCB or bought separately. The SiP includes 1 Gb DDR2 memory, which eases PCB design by removing the high-speed memory interface constraints. Impedance matching is also taken care of in the package. There are three memory sizes available (128 Mb, 512 Mb and 1 Gb) in the SiP, and the memory is optimised for RTOS and Linux implementations.
The SOM and SiP are supported by the SOM1-EK1 development board. A free BSP includes the Linux kernel and drivers for the MPU peripherals and integrated circuits on the SOM.
More information
www.microchip.com/SAMA5D2SOM
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